alt Hacker News> Reproducing an ASML machine is a piece of cake. Okay, not a piece of cake but definitely doable. The problem is that you cannot sell your reproduction in rich countries because the US government will threaten you with sanctions and US companies will screech "patents!".
... An argument that may not convince China and Russia, who have a track record of ignoring it - I doubt it is a significant reason why they have not achieved semiconductor manufacture tooling parity.
>I doubt it is a significant reason why they have not achieved semiconductor manufacture tooling parity.
It's not enough to reproduce just the work of asml, you basically have to reproduce their entire supply chain, because, same reason, their suppliers will have trouble obtaining export permissions.